R Observatory: Metrics for bartCause version 1.0-10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bartCause

1.0-10Package record

Causal Inference using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

2packages dependsuggested by 1

8.7Kdownloads / year

61.7%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Vincent DorieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Contains a variety of methods to generate typical causal inference estimates using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) as the underlying regression model (Hill (2012) doi:10.1198/jcgs.2010.08162).

Changes in 1.0-10

USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

Generics that accept ... arguments but do not use them will now issue warnings when called with unknown arguments. Suggestion thanks to Joshua Bon.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("bartCause", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("vdorie/bartCause")

Development version from vdorie/bartCause. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bartcause

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-bartCause

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-bartCause

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORpackage dependenciesr-release-macos-x86_64

Package required but not available: ‘dbarts’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERRORNow
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0-10

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 1.0-10Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 82%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,029 · ~24/day · ~726/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

54730 days

1.6K90 days

8.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on179 r2u31 autocran80 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

vdorie/bartcause ↗Account: vdorie

87Stars

10Forks

12Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

115Commits

2Commit identities

115 commits · Last activity 2025-07-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-27 · 822026-07-11 · 87

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vdorie/bartcause on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bartCause adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 863 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: dbarts 863 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1-0

Imports (7)

dbartsmethodsstatsgraphicsparallelutilsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat lme4rparttmle stan4bart

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

CRE evalITR

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidytreatment

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Vincent Dorie

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-2 (2020)

Jennifer Hill

Author

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-02
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 54 KB

Appears in task views

Bayesian Inference Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bartCause")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1198/jcgs.2010.08162.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bartCause version 1.0-10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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